Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.