Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

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.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Ask the young. They know everything.