Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.