What fire does not destroy, it hardens

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

True friends stab you in the front.

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.