Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.