In art as in love, instinct is enough. – Anatole France
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. – Anatole France

In art as in love, instinct is enough. – Anatole France
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. – Anatole France
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. – Anatole France
Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel. – Maturin M. Ballou, January 1886, preface to Edge-Tools of Speech