I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces..

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night..

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it..

The human heart will never wrinkle.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post..

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues..

there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind..

long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the pla….

Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves..

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long..

We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living..

the days, and the months, and the years, pass so swiftly, that I can no longer retain them. Time, in its flight, hurries me away, in spite of myself;….

Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection..

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives..

I pity those who have no taste for reading..

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone..

good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions..

Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often e….

I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it..

If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, h….