Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

Too much is unwholesome.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.