In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.

Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.

Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!