I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

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.

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

We are easily duped by those we love.