Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.