Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured wo...
A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
I am not young enough to know everything.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope....