Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?