It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

There are some who speak one moment before they think

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.