If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.

If you create a character, you create a destiny.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi".

Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage.

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.