To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.

A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

Continuous eloquence wearies.

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.