The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.