Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
The supreme vice is shallowness.
Every thing to be true must become a religion.