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

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.