Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth

The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.

The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.