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

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.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.