Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.