None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.
Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.
There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.
We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.