The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.