The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.

I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.

[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.