If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.

People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.