One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.

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