There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.

Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.