Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.