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.

Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.