One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

God creates the animals, man creates himself.

Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.