How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.

To know where a thing is we must have found it.

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.