All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.