Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

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.

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.