You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

The heart feels, the head compares.

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.