I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few f...
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Love is easily killed.
I never change, except in my affections.
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagina...
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.