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.

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

Remembrances last longer than present realities.

A scholar knows no boredom.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.