The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.