Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
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True friends stab you in the front.
Friendship
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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox—the unspeakable in full pursuit of the une...
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.
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Yes. I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punnishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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