A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.