It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

The more you say, the less they remember.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.