If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.