Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

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.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

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.

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.