An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see..

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field..

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we ….

Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier..

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible..

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul..

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny..

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?.

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then..

If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal..

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity..

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew..

To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life..

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets..

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies..

In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman..

love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination..

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends..

Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices..

Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature..

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has b….