There is no magician like love.

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .

A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.

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