Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.