One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.

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

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

A man who is free and unmarried, if he has some intelligence, can rise above his fortune, mingle in society and meet the best people on an equal footing. This is harder for a married man: marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.