"Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses once!"
"You are young. No hungry generations tread you down.... The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost..."
"Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility."
"For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners."
"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature it requires, in fact, that nature of a true Individualist to sympathize with a friend's success."
"Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."
"Sins of the flesh are nothing. Sins of the soul are shameful."
"Something was dead in each of us,/ And what was dead was Hope."
"The Americans are certainly hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes."
"Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess."