The society of women is the element of good manners.

Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.

We must be young to do great things.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Mastery is often taken for egotism.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.