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

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.

Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.

And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.

America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.