The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.