Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.