Philibert Joseph Roux (April 26, 1780 – March 24, 1854) was a French surgeon born in Auxerre.
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.
Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.