In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

In married life three is company and two none.