Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Genius lasts longer than beauty

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

Every woman is a rebel.

Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.