Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking up the points or solid atoms, subtlety in feeling the air of truth.