My body and my will are one.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.