In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.