A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.

The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.

Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.

Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.