Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women.

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

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

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.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.