Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.