I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.
Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.
To see the world is to judge the judges.