Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

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

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

Virtue is the health of the soul.

Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.