To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.