Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.