 It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent. |
| There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts. |
| Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. |
| The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. |
| When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. |
| A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. |
| Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. |
| We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. |
| Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions. |
| Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word. |
| Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. |
| Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. |
| The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. |
| There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them. |
| Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. |
| Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. |
| Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. |
