It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Human life must be some form of mistake.

One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.