Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.