Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.
A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.