We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

The universe was born restless and has never since been still.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.