Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

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

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.