L'on veut faire tout le bonheur, ou si cela ne se peut ainsi, tout le malheur de ce qu'on aime. - Jean de La Bruyère

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

L'on voit bien que l'Opéra est l'ébauche d'un grand spectacle; il en donne l'idée.

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.