“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”
“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”
“The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign.”
“It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.”
“History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.”
“Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.”
“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”
“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”
“Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.”
“It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.”
“What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.”
“The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.”
“A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.”
“I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
“It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.”
“Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name.”
“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”
“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”
“When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.”
“The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.”
“The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.”
“We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.”
“It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.”
“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.”
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
“Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.”
“The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.”
“I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.”
“There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.”