“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
“Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.”
“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
“Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.”
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”