“What is love? two souls and one flesh friendship? two bodies and one soul.”

“Solitude vivifies isolation kills. ”

“Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.”

“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”

“When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.”

“A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”

“Success causes us to be more praised than known.”

“Science is for those who learn poetry for those who know.”

“I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy.”

“Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade: today it is the reverse.”

“At first we hope too much later on not enough.”