Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it