I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.
Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.
The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.
When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.
If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.