The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Life is too short to be in a hurry.
The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.
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.