A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

That ephemeral sheet,... the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.