Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.