No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her.

I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

All industry must be excited by hope.

Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.