Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.