Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.