Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.

Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.