The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.