The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.