Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.