It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

One should always be in love.

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.