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

A small number of choice books are sufficient.

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

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