There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.

To see the world is to judge the judges.

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

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