exhale from them.

* * * * *

The estate will soon be brought under the hammer; there is poverty all
round; and the footmen are still dressed like jesters.

* * * * *

There has been an increase not in the number of nervous diseases and
nervous patients, but in the number of doctors able to study those
diseases.

* * * * *

The more refined the more unhappy.

* * * * *

Life does not agree with philosophy: there is no happiness which is
not idleness and only the useless is pleasurable.

* * * * *

The grandfather is given fish to eat, and if it does not poison him
and he remains alive, then all the family eat it.

* * * * *

A correspondence. A young man dreams of devoting himself to literature