Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
Heaven is for those who think of it.
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.