Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!

My only books were women's looks.

We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

If only art were as rare as good taste.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.