Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.