The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.

There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

The little man is still a man.

Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.