The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.

Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

It is always our inabilities that vex us.

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.