The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

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

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

We love justice greatly, and just men but little.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Success causes us to be more praised than known.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.