I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?

Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath.

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.