Emotions

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think

The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility

A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain

The things we really know are not the things we have merely read about or heard about, but the things we have lived, have experienced, have been sensible of

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition

Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them