Most people do not pray; they only beg.

He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Syllables govern the world.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.