Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.