Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.

Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.

How circumscribed is woman's destiny!

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

The people rate strength before everything.