To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

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!

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.