Love, and you shall be loved.

Imitation cannot go above its model.

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.