The worst of faces still is human.

The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.