Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my life passing. It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time, that I am the spectator of some mystery, and shall issue from it old, or no longer capable of age.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.