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

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.