Malice Delights To Blacken The Characters Of

History Is The Invention Of Historians.

He, Who Practices Right, But In The Hope Of Acquiring Great Renown, Is Very Near To Vice.

A Well-composed Song Strikes The Mind And Softens The Feelings, And Produces A Greater Effect Than A Moral Work, Which Convinces Our Reason, But Does Not Warm Our Feelings, Nor Effect The Slightest Alteration In Our Habits

Of All The Peoples Of Europe, Spaniards Disgust Me The Least.

One Must Indeed Be Ignorant Of The Methods Of Genius To Suppose That It Allows Itself To Be Cramped By Forms. Forms Are For Mediocrity, And It Is Fortunate That Mediocrity Can Act Only According To Routine. Ability Takes Its Flight Unhindered.