Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

honesty dies in selling itself.

... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.