Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.