Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!

Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.

If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.