A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
It's splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts.
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed it.