You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.