Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
Change is the essence of life.
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.