It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

Every artists wants to be applauded

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.