What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.