"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
"To define is to limit."
"What fire does not destroy, it hardens"
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."