Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
Long is the road from conception to completion.
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
I will maintain it before the whole world.
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.