Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.