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

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.