In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.