Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.