There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.