Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.
Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.
If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.
Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.