Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

All finery is a sign of littleness.

Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.