I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

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.

Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.