We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that's the only happy solution we can see. We don't think of what usually happens and what is also a happy solution; things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.