Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.