In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.