Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

There is only good art and mediocre art.