Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

Where your life leads you, you must go

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.