Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

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.