The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.