Ignorance can be cured. Stupid is forever.
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness
I believe I can sing anything.
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks
Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.
Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else