What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.