Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.