Out of difficulties grow miracles.

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

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

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

To forget someone means to think of him.