Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.

Bright and illustrious illusions!