Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

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

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.

Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.