Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.

When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.

The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love.