Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

One should always be a little improbable.