There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.