People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

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.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.