If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.