It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.