One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!

What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.

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