Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.