Good criticism is very rare and always precious.
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.
There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.