All criticism is a form of autobiography

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

California is an Italy without its art.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

The heart was made to be broken.