Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.