Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.
Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.
Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.
Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.
The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.
Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.