Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.

economy spoils pleasure

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.