The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

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.

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.