Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse.
To read means to borrow to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts.
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does.
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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