It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

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.

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

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

The finest pleasure is kindness to others.