Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.

It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.

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