Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.

Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.

The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.