All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.

To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.

Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.