The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.

Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe.

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule.