Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?

Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier.

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.