Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.