What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

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