He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.
Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
The superfluous is the most necessary.
Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.