A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world about us; the moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

After all, there is but one race: humanity.

The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.

A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

If there were no husbands, who would look after our mistresses?

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

The difficulty in life is the choice.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero.