He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.

Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?