One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.