A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.