To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

"A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing."

"Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices."

All costumes are caricatures. The basis of Art is not the Fancy Ball.

"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else."