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

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Every form correctly seen is beautiful