Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.' My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said. My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent.

I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.