If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.

What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.