Custom alone regulates morals.

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.