Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

Life is a series of surprises.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.