Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

Life is a great disappointment.