Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.