Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
Everything that happens, happens of necessity.
The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.