In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears

Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.

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

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.

Great souls are harmonious.

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