The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men men are not united but merely lined up.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed for if you merely offend them they take vengeance but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts his acts being seven ages.

Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.

Most men when they think they are thinking are merely rearranging their prejudices.