Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.