Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.