Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.

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

You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.

In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.

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.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.