What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.

A man's errors are what make him amiable.