Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.