But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.