Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.