Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.