A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.