The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
I see when men love women, they give them but a little of their lives. But women, when they love give everything.
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
Imagination is a quality given to a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour is provided to console him for what he is.