It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.
In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.