There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

To make something you have to be something.

And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.