It does the heart good to look at you.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.

Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.

I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.