True love rules especially through memory.
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.
The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.