The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.