To know where a thing is we must have found it.

The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.

He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

He who cannot love must learn to flatter.

One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.