The tragedy of love is indifference.

The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.

The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.