Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
Men do not change; they unmask themselves.
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.
I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.