The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.