Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.