Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.

I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.