There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

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.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.