That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.