It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!