What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.

In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!