Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.