What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.