We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.

What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.