One's only real life is the life one never leads.

Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.