Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
A man's library is a sort of harem.
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.