I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.

For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

There is no patriotic art.

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.