If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Only good questions deserve good answers.