Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.

Everything that is exquisite hides itself.

The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.

We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.

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

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.