Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

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.