We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.
A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.
Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.
How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!
Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.