Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.