The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.