A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.

The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.

Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.

We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.

But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.