Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.