Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.