With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

To define is to limit.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.