Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.
Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.
The lessons of experience are always learned too late.
It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.
Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.