Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

The curves of your lips rewrite history.

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.