We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
Imitation is suicide.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Nature always wears colours of the spirit.
