All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
The more it changes, the more it's the same thing.
We can invent only with memory.
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.