After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!

Always be a little unexpected.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.