The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their expressions and images; we must indicate what is true if we mean to write naturally, forcibly and delicately.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.