Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!

work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.