The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.