One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.