“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.