The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.
The return makes one love the farewell.
In love matters; keep your pen from paper.
Great artists have no country.
A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.
There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings