“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”

“One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.”

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”

“There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”

“I make a great difference between people. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me. Is that very vain of me? I think it is rather vain.”

“A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”