A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize