He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.

When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.

Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.