“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”

“There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.”

“Genius lasts longer than beauty”

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”

“It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.”