We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.

Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.