There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?

The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

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.