Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

Art persists, it timelessly continues.