Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex..

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree..

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another..

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes..

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions..

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship..

What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul..

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent..

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal..

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..

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know..

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough..

The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation..

Everything that is exquisite hides itself..

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained..

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred..

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..

Success causes us to be more praised than known..

Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common..