To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)
You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.