Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

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

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

Generosity is more charitable than wealth.