The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

Wisdom comes with winters

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well