Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
The egoist does not tolerate egoism.
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.
Great souls are harmonious.
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.