If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.

The solution of every problem is another problem