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

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.