Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.
Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.