The only proper intoxication is conversation.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.