economy spoils pleasure

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

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.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

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

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.