Joseph Roux

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Conscience is a man's compass.”

“Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.”

“Taste is the feminine of genius.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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