There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
The secret of life is in art.
Art never expresses anything but itself.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.