"The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart."
"Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness."
"In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody."
"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want."
"I am not young enough to know everything."
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."