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

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

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.

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

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.