A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.

Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

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

To forget someone means to think of him.