Beauty is a form of genius–is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.