A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.
Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.
It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.
Make your best thoughts into action.
Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.
In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.