I am happy in my prison of passion

Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.