To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

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.

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.