After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.