You can never know enough about your characters.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money.

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.