The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.

Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.