One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

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

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.