Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.

There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.