Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.
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.
That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.
Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.