If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.