I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

I love the broad margin to my life.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.