Circumstances should never alter principles!

Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

Only good questions deserve good answers.

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.