The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.