What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.