November 10.

Those minds in which there is always something beyond their thought and which, so to speak, have no bounds.

November 14.

Louis XIV: “he founded.”

November 15.

Difference of one’s own faith or of another’s faith.

The poet must be not only the Phidias and the Daedalus of [his] verses, but also their Prometheus, and with form and movement he must give them soul and life.

November 18.

Those who always love have no leisure to complain and find themselves unhappy (as the abbé Delile would say).

November 19.

To truth through illusion.

November 20.

Good grace for use in society which, says the A. D-v-, “require one to be very restrained in one’s aversions.

Sad science, which teaches the blind to speak of light and colors and persuades them that they can even judge them well.

November 24.

In Giraudet’s Endymion, the figure of Zephyr gives a witness to a scene that ought not to have one.

November […]5.

“It is my beautiful house at Alba that pursues me.” “It is the last word that makes the tragedy of the sentence,” Mme de Caux used to say.

Clarissa “through her very perfection understood human affairs less.” Same person.

An ox’s heart is not a heart. (Mme J.)

November […]6.

To make the mind laugh. The mind does indeed sometimes laugh before the face.