Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

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

The secret of life is in art.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.