Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.