I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

The worst men often give the best advice.

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.