I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
To describe happiness is to diminish it.