"It is the merit of those who praise that makes the value of the commendation."

"To envy anybody is to confess ourselves his inferior."

"In love, great pleasures come very near great sorrows."

"Benevolence rejuvenates the heart, exercise, the memory, and remembrance, life."

"Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains."

"A woman would be in despair if nature had formed her as fashion makes her appear."

"In a tête-à-tête we are never more interrupted than when we say nothing."

"The theorist should not let us forget the poet."

"No longer is it a matter of the narrow roads where traditional beauty is offered in its clarity and obviousness to th…"

"Our problem now is to determine whether the Ethiopian attitude that we discovered was the very essence of our whole w…"