Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.
Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.
Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.