The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

We are all guilty of the good we did not do

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

True power and true politeness are above vanity.