How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.

Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.

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.

Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.