I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.