All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.