Edmond de Goncourt

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

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.