There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
It is always the unreadable that occurs.
Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.