If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.