Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

The part of life which we really live is short.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.

Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.