To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it..

When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue..

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty..

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end..

Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse..

The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends..

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action..

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthe….

[On Russia:] In every way, there is something gigantic about this people: ordinary dimensions have no applications whatever to it. I do not mean by t….

Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sar….

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it..

The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart..

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities..

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible..

Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind..

Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly ….

However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom..

Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs of genius..

The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed..

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others..

I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ours….