The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.

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.

... 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.

We always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent.

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.