It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.