Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.

Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.