Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.