A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.