Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
Imagination is a quality given to a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour is provided to console him for what he is.
One is absolutely sickened, not by crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.