I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can’t.

Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent...

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit...

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted...

It is often easier to justify one’s self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one’s own bosom.

As for pictures and museums, that don’t trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you’ve always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one’s own case.

Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence...

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him – better days are coming...

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one’s own, it is always 20 times better.