A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.