Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.