Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.