Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

I can resist everything except temptation.