Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.