If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.
He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.
Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.