When women love, they forgive everything...

Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.