It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.