God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
