There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.