Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

All will come out in the washing.

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.