Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.