We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

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.