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

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.

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

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

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

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.

love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.