The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
Close your eyes and you will see.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.