Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.