An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.