Love decreases when it ceases to increase.

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.

Talent is nothing but long impatience.

The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.