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.

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.

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

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.