The devil's most devilish when respectable.

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.

And is it not the chief good of money, the being free from the need of thinking of it?

Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.