The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.

Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.