It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

To change masters is not to be free.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.