Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.

Satire is the disease of art.

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

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.