One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.