Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.

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