"Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard."

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"

"The greatest luxury of our lives is to be able to wake up in the morning and not have to think about how we are going to survive."

"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."

"The greatest crime is not to commit a crime, but to hide it."