Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.