Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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.
People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.