In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

Our foibles are really what make us lovable.