Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.

Space is the stature of God.