Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

Youth is the only thing worth having.

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.