Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.