Every woman is wrong until she cries.

A mutual misunderstanding.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

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