Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Music is the perfect type of art.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.