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

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.