Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid