Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.