When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.