Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.