Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Don't try so much to form your character - it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether she is a gifted being, but she is a clever girl, with a strong will and a high temper. She has no idea of being bored...Very pretty indeed; but I don’t insist upon that. It’s her general air of being someone in particular that strikes me.

It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.