Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances.

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.