One should always be a little improbable.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

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.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

Be moderate in all things, including moderation.