A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
Who, being loved, is poor?