Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.