We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

Love is the symbol of eternity.