How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

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

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.