The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.