The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.

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

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.