“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”

“The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.”

“He atones for being occasionally somewhat overdressed by being always absolutely over-educated. He is a very modern type.”

“I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”

“I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.”

“I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.”

“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.”