Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.