One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.