God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way...

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal...

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Silence is the wit of fools.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.