She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

One should absorb the color of life.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.