Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color, speaks only through the most poetic forms; but first and last, it must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.