Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
Imitation is suicide.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
Nature always wears colours of the spirit.
