A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.