Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.