The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world