For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.