One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be rid of ties, responsibilities, duties, I like the unknown; I meet odd people who amuse me for a moment and sometimes suggest a theme for a composition; I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from the journey quite the same self that I took