American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

Art never expresses anything but itself.

The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.