Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.

I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.