Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.