Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.

Great artists have no country.

[I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve; you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected; but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest?

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.