We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Conviction is the conscience of intellect.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.