We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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.
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.
The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.