It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
My life is a struggle.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.