We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.