The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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.