The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?