I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.
There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?