Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.