Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.