Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.