We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.

Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.