Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.