People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
We never respect those who amuse us however we may smile at their comic...
Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals...
Happiness consists not in having much but in being content with little.
Here Fashion is a despot and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
Talent like beauty to be pardoned must be obscure and unostentatious.
