Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
In married life three is company and two none.
The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me
The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.