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

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.

There are those to whom one must advise madness.

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

Justice is the right of the weakest.