We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

Experience is only half of experience.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.