Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.
To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.
How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those people who behold them in these fine spots, where they never saw them grow, and who neither know their beginning nor their progress!
It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.
The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.
We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.
Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.
The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.
It is because of men that women dislike one another.
The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes.
Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.
Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.
In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.
To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?
The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their expressions and images; we must indicate what is true if we mean to write naturally, forcibly and delicately.
We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.
We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.
The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.
Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.
The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?
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