Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.