Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.

There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.

if I inflict wounds, I heal them.