Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

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

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

The impotence of God is infinite.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.