The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?

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

Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

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

If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.

He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.