There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.

Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.