The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

The heart was made to be broken.

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.