I can resist everything except temptation.

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them.