People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Silence is the wit of fools.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

It is not customary to love what one has.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!