The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.