Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.