Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.