The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense -- it was crazy. It gave back broken images of a world which it made look like the chaos of a lunatic dream.

A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.

The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who have also experienced poverty and failure. There is little romance in wealth to those who have been born wealthy and whose families have been wealthy for generations.