All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the colour from a man's entire existence.

Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

He who best knows the world will love it least.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.