Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.
Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.