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

All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.

The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

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

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

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