To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
To love beauty is to see light.
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.
Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?