Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

All we are is in the soul.

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.