Chance makes a football of man’s life.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

Fine conduct is always spontaneous.

It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the insanities we commit.

We are more often frightened than hurt: our troubles spring more often from fancy than reality.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

“Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.”

“Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”