Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.