Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.
We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.
Nature has always had more force than education.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.