Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.