Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

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

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats