The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.