We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.