Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
How many fools does it take to make up a public?
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
The poor are the blacks of Europe.
A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.