Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.