The purest joy is to live without disguise, unconstrained by the ties of a grave reputation.

Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.

There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

Everyone knows about everybody in Hollywood—who sleeps with whom, who doesn’t sleep, who does it standing on his head or in the dentist’s chair.

Keep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.