Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
Women of the world crave excitement.
Egotism is the tongue of vanity.