You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.