All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.