A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
When unhappy one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him?...
Solitude vivifies isolation kills.
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
Evil often triumphs but never conquers.
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade: today it is the reverse.
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
At first we hope too much later on not enough.
Science is for those who learn poetry for those who know.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
What is love? two souls and one flesh friendship? two bodies and one soul.
We call that person who has lost his father an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known that immense unhappiness of losing a friend by what name do we call h...
Friendship admits of difference of character as love does that of sex.