To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.