A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.

One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.