It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.
Jules RenardIt astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.
Jules RenardIn literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.
Jules Renard