Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.