“Despair is the only genuine atheism.”
“The look of a king is itself a deed.”
“Brevity is the body and soul of wit.”
“Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.”
“Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.”
“No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.”
“No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.”
“The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.”
“Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.”
“The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.”
“Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.”
“The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.”
“Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.”
“Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.”
“Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.”
“In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.”
“Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.”
“No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.”
“No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.”
“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
“Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.”
“The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.”
“Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.”
“The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.”
“Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.”