One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.