Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.