As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

We are taught words, not ideas.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.