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

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest.

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

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.