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

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.

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

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

Length of saying makes languor of hearing.