Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

Anyone can be a fool, but the one recognizes it and admits it is on the path to wisdom.

Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others

the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.

"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"

Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.

You have to be un-compromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared. Commitment cannot be compromised by rewards.

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.