Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.