Joseph Roux

“We are always much better pleased to see those whom we have obliged than those who have obliged us.”

“A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”

“Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.”

“Vulgar people know nothing of the delights of solitude.”

“The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately.”

“Poetry is the truth in its Sunday clothes.”

“A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.”

“Taste is the feminine of genius.”

“Glory is the true and honourable recompense of valiant actions.”

“To do nothing is in every man's power.”

“God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.”

“Not to be occupied, and not to exist, amount to the same thing.”

“Genius is the talent of a man who is dead.”

“Avarice is the vice of declining years.”

“Good-breeding is the blossom of good sense.”

“Conscience is a man's compass.”

“Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.”

“A hero is a man who is afraid to be a coward.”

“The youth of an art is like the youth of a man: it is passionate, but crude.”