Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.

Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.

To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.

By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.

The law of common sense.