Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.