A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Certainly there are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

Do not ask me to be land; just ask me to act as though I were.

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

God, he whom everyone knows, by name.

How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.

I am afraid I shall not find Him [God]: but I shall still look for Him, if He exists. He may be appreciative of my efforts.

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I am never bored anywhere; being bored is an insult to oneself.

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