Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.

There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them.