A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.