Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Your aspirations are your possibilities.
Courtesy and good-humour are often found with little real worth.
Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.
The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.
Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.