There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.

But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. Lucky dogs! they already knew in their cradles the nouns ending in im. I on the contrary had to learn it by heart, in the sweat of my brow.

She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.

Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course, if the spectator be without the last, the whole will present but a pitiful appearance, and in that case, the sun is merely so many miles in diameter, the trees are good for fuel, the flowers are classified by stamens, and the water is simply wet.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.