The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.