I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.

In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.

I pity those who have no taste for reading.

The heart never becomes wrinkled.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.