Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.