The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.