Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.