When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.