Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regrate.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

Any religion is an illusion to others