The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

The history of mankind is his character.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.