Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

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