I wouldn't marry a man with a future before him for anything under the sun.
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly, but I don't see any chance of it just at present.
Modern memoirs are generally written by people who have entirely lost their memories and have never done anything worth recording.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Women are like minors, they live upon their expectations.
Twisted minds are as natural to some people as twisted bodies.
It is the very passions about whose origin we deceive ourselves that tyrannise most strongly over us. Our weakest motives are those of whose nature we are conscious. It often happens that when we think we are experimenting on others we are really experimenting on ourselves.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing it is always from the noblest motives.
I thought I had no heart. I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me. Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old, and it spoils one's career at critical moments.
I don't play accurately—anyone can play accurately—but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned sentiment is my forte. I keep science for life.