Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.