“A menudo encontramos nuestro destino por los caminos que tomamos para evitarlo.”

“Todos los cerebros del mundo son impotentes contra cualquier estupidez que esté de moda.”

“Apprenez que tout flatteurVit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute :Cette leçon vaut bien un fromage, sans doute.Flatterers thrive on fools' credulity.The lesson's worth a cheese, don't you agree?”

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”

“Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.”

“There's nothing sweeter than a real friend:Not only is he prompt to lend—An angler delicate, he fishesThe very deepest of your wishes,And spares your modesty the taskHis friendly aid to ask.A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear,When pointing at the object dear.”

“I don't believe that Nature's powersHave tied her hands or pinioned ours,By marking on the heavenly vaultOur fate without mistake or fault.That fate depends on conjunctionsOf places, persons, times, and tracks,And not on the functionsOf more or less of quacks.”