A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.