Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.
Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.
Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.
Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.
Love truth, and pardon error.
All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.