In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.

The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children!

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.