We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

Please do not understand me too quickly.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.