What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.