I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

Life is too short to be in a hurry.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)