Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use reading it at all.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive this old art of Lying.
What is the difference between literature and journalism? Oh! Journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
