One must be something, in order to do something.

To make something you have to be something.

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.