That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.

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

A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.

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

Everything that is exquisite hides itself.

Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.