If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.