God made the water but men made the wine.
Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
The earth is a great piece of stupidity.
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.