Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.