We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

A born king is a very rare being.

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.