Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
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
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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.