Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.