The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves.
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.