What we call happiness is what we do not know.
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.