“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.”

“Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.”

“If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.”

“Besides, every experience is of value, and whatever one may say against marriage, it is certainly an experience.”

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”

“For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.”

“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”