Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.

Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

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.

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.

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.