Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.