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.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.