Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.