A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.