Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.
What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!
Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.