Occupation: Surgeon Birth: April 26, 1780 Death: March 24, 1854
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage..
Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm..
Certain names always awake certain prejudices..
The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes..
Success causes us to be more praised than known..
We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred..
Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common..
That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man..
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another..
The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us..
To love is to choose..
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions..
Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!.
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse..
Generosity is more charitable than wealth..
We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend..
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!.
Solitude vivifies, isolation kills..
History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a f….
The egoist does not tolerate egoism..
A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again..