He who has lived a day has lived an age.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.