Philosophy goes no further than probabilities and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

Human improvement is from within outward.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain therefore to treat them as if they were equal.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world insincerity is the most dangerous.

We enter the world alone we leave it alone.

The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue with ignorance.

…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end.

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

Use romantic relationships to grow, not to lose yourself. Keep your priorities in order.

This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.