Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.