"I may have said the same thing before… But my explanation, I assume, will always be different."

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist."

"The worst thing you can do for a person of genius is to help him: that way lies his destruction."

"There is no sin except stupidity."

"Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us… The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

"Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others."

"One should always be a little improbable."

"Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms."