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

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

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

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

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

She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.

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