All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

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.

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

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.

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

To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.