 The ear is the avenue to the heart. |
| Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. |
| My life is a struggle. |
| It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. |
| He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad. |
| We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved. |
| The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence. |
| Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. |
| Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. |
| What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. |
| Prejudices are what fools use for reason. |
| Nature has always had more force than education. |
| Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal. |
| Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. |
| All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. |
| The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. |
| Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. |
| Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. |
| Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. |
| The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. |
