The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

To create something you must be something.

And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.

Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.