The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

The end of pain we take as happiness.