Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.