A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.