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

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.