There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

If this is dying, I don't think much of it.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.