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.

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

We can invent only with memory.

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

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

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.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.