Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.