That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.