Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.
Slander is the solace of malignity.
To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry