It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound....
Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is asacrament that should be taken kneeling.
Circumstances should never alter principles!
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.
To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people amuse people or shock people.
To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it is.
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
When a love comes to an end weaklings cry efficient ones instantly find another love and the wise already have one in reserve.
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.
I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when win...
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
You have a wonderful personality. Develop it. Be yourself. Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. If only you could rea...