It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.