Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.