"Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is a more infallible index to character than the face."

"It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us."

"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."

"The more intelligence one has, the more pain one suffers."

"Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection."