I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.