Surely joy is the condition of life.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.

The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect.

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.