The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.