What you can become you are already.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.

There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.

Religion is the highest vanity.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.