History is merely gossip
I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.