Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.

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

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.