Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.

I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.