An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.

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