I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
One is absolutely sickened, not by crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.