“To a toad, what is beauty? A female with pop eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and a spotted back,”

“There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.”

“The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.”

“A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.”

“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. ”

“But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.”

“What is the verdict of the vastest mind?Silence: the book of fate is closed to us.Man is a stranger to his own research;He knows not whence he comes, nor whither goes.Tormented atoms in a bed of mud,Devoured by death, a mockery of fate.But thinking atoms, whose far-seeing eyes,Guided by thought, have measured the faint stars,Our being mingles with the infinite;Ourselves we never see, or come to know.”