Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

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.

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.

I will maintain it before the whole world.

I have the knack of easing scruples.