One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

Imaginary evils are incurable.

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.

n every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.