How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.