He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.