A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.