What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!