My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

I never change, except in my affections.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens