I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

There's no sin but stupidity.