Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance

A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.