Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.