Charles De Saint-Evremond Quotes

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

The foolish moments of the head are often the most wonderful times of the heart.

There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.