The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
The sure way of judging whether our first thoughts are judicious, is to sleep on them. If they appear of the same force the next morning as they did over night, and if good nature ratifies what good sense approves, we may be pretty sure we are in the right.
I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.