There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.