The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.