When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.