It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.
A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.
It is only through timidity that states are lost.
The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.