Sceptics are yet the most credulous.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.