Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.