We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

Genius lasts longer than beauty

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.