Age either transfigures or petrifies.

Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.

New happiness too must be learned to bear.

That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.

One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.