Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.