In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.

Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.